I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.

Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependent on it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure, and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard.

That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.

They're beautiful. But sad.' Everything's sad if you make it so, I said.

Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, I cannot accept them as credible explanations of reality; and they are incredible to me in proportion to the degree that they require my belief in positive human attributes and intervenient powers in their divinities.